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Check out Django Rest Framework - it uses Django’s ORM and adds some really nice features for building a decent sized API

I find that even noise cancelling headphones don't help drown out nearby conversations - I listen to Apple's Chill radio and use Noizio when I really need to focus.

Milking the iPhone 10 years ago

More importantly, transportation is the gateway to the grand prize: housing. When contemplating a smart home, there is nowhere better to start than developing smart rooms on wheels.

Is the author suggesting autonomous smart caravans?

Django has haystack[0], which I've used with an elasticsearch backend on a few projects and is generally pretty easy to set up and get good results with. I haven't had to do anything more advanced than autocomplete/boost/spelling suggestions, but from what I've read it seems pretty powerful.

[0] http://haystacksearch.org/

I've gone down the same route, from PostgreSQL search to ElasticSearch with usually pretty good results. A friend has strongly recommended Algolia, so I'll explore that for the next project that needs it.

I use and have used Heroku for personal projects for quite a while. I don't feel too bad, because a) they only run free dyno apps upon request (idle most of the time) and b) I'm a huge advocate for their products, which has led to my work and several other companies using and recommending Heroku. At work we now have a number of clients typically running 2-5 dynos and other services, hopefully easily covering my freeloading!

Django 1.7 Released 12 years ago

Are you using any packages with Flask for API code? I quite like Django Rest Framework for JSON APIs, I just ignore the parts of Django I don't need.

Game of Hacks 12 years ago

alex here. After getting a question correct, you can submit the same POST request with the same answer, and a very large negative number for the time. I imagine they're just adding your newly calculated score (30?-time) to your session's previous score. A lesson in sanitising inputs!

What's the use case? Do you need to know exactly when the task is done? Does it vary in duration significantly? Can you split the call into two - one to start it, another to check the status given an ID?

Project Tango 12 years ago

This is called photogrammetry - check out Autodesk's 123D Catch iPhone and web app, it yields some pretty good results if you take enough evenly lit photos with decent overlap.